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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : patronymic from a Frisian pet name based on a Germanic personal name formed with theud ‘people’, ‘race’, or from Gabo, a short form of Gebhardt or some other Germanic name having geb ‘gift’ as its first element.

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